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Open Short Story Comp 2017 - And the winner is ...

12/1/2017

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry to our annual competition.
Judge's comments and winning entries will be published on our website before end
of December.

All entrants will be contacted by email soon

First place - Mr Patel's Power Drill - Tony Oswick, wins £100

Second place - The Dome - Joyce Walker wins £60

Third place - The Widows of Slagdale - Jill Mirza wins £25

Fourth place - Dead Cert - Barbara Young - wins £15

Highly Commended - Wasted - Dorothy Snelson - wins 2018 comp free entry

Highly Commended - Fingal's Cave - Gillian Brown - wins 2018 comp free entry

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Open Short Story Comp 2017 - Shortlist and Longlist

11/22/2017

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Thanks to all entrants to our annual competition for submitting their writing to our competition.

The following are the titles of the shortlisted entries. Scroll down for the longlist.

Altara Drive
Belonging
Broken Mirrors
Counting the Stones
Dead Cert
Fingal's Cave
Found and Lost
Letting Go
Lurch
Pride Before the Fall
Mr Patel's Power Drill
The Dome
The Widows of Slagdale
Trick or Treat
Wasted
　

Longlisted

A Sacred Place
Daisy and Frank
Going Around Mercury
Hooked
The Old Boiler
Strangers in a Bar
Yes Nurse

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Winners of 'Books' Themed Writing Competition 2017

8/31/2017

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We are pleased to announce the final result of this competition.

Firstly, our thanks to international bestselling author Rachel Caine for providing our competition with a complete signed set of the Weather Warden series

http://www.rachelcaine.com
Twitter: @rachelcaine
Facebook: rachelcainefanpage

Contact: rachelcainewriter@gmail.com
Rachel Caine is the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 internationally bestselling author of more than 50 novels that span the categories of horror, suspense, urban fantasy, science fiction, media tie-in, historical, and young adult. She's also the author of more than 100 short stories. Follow the link for further information about Rachel
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/rachel-caine.htm

(Scroll down to previous post for details of the long list)

Our six winning entrants are

Outright Winner = Vanessa Horn - Elucidation

Gillian Brown - Sanctuary
Ellen Evers - Be Careful What You Wish For
Tony Oswick - A Novel Experience
Mark White - The Bookseller
Faye Worthing - Page Turner

Thank you to all entrants for submitting your entries to our competition. Our annual Open Short Story Competition is currently inviting entries with prizes of £100, £60, £25, £15 and more.

http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2017-open-short-story-competition-with-anne-rainbow.html

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'Books' Themed Writing Competition 2017 - Result

8/30/2017

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Long list

We are delighted to announce our longlist for this competition. We will announce the outright winner and five other shortlisted entrants on Thursday afternoon. We will not name the long list entrants in case those not shortlisted want to submit their writing to another competition.

The Bookseller
Sanctuary
Jane Eyre Reads Jean Rhys
Be Careful What You Wish For
Elucidation
A Novel Experience
Release
Classic Encounter
Page Turner
The Old Lie

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Winner of the Pets Aplenty competition with Malcolm Welshman

6/19/2017

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http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/winner-2017-pets-aplenty-with-malcolm-welshman.html

Please follow the link above to find Sue's story entitled Rescue.

My blog post of 3rd June details the shortlist.

Kind regards,
Debbie

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'Pets Aplenty' with Malcolm Welshman

6/3/2017

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Our thanks to Malcolm for judging this competition.

Thanks to all for taking part in our competition. We look forward to reading you again soon. We currently have two competitions open to entries:

'Books' Themed Writing Competition - closes 29th June 2017
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2017-books-themed-writing-competition.html
Entry form
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/entry-form-books-themed-competition-2017.html

Open Short Story Competition - closes September 2017
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2017-open-short-story-competition-with-anne-rainbow.html
Entry form http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2017-entry-form.html

Judge's comments: A well written, well constructed short piece. The bond that can develop between owner and dog shone through in a very moving way. Congratulations on a worthy winner.

Sue Hoffman will receive a signed copy of Malcolm's paperback 'Pets Aplenty' and her entry will be published on this site in the next few days.

Sue name and those shortlisted (see below) will be entered into our December draw where we are giving away a free entry to our 2018 Open Short Story Competition. We will email those shortlisted in due course to confirm inclusion in our December draw.

Winner - Rescue by Sue Hoffmann

Shortlisted

Fox: An Orphaned Cub
Hierarchy
IT
Jackie the Jackdaw
Musical Mischief
Skydancer
Tess
The End of the Line
The Incident at Rosy Lee's Tea Room

Kind regards,
Debbie
erewashwriterscomps@hotmail.co.uk

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Winners 2016 Open Short Story Competition with Patsy Collins

11/24/2016

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http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/winners-2016-open-short-story-competition-with-patsy-collins.html

Please follow the link for more info

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Short List for Open Short Story Competition 2016

11/21/2016

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Shortlist for Open Short Story Competition 2016

We hope to announce the winning entries by the end of this week

A Flight of Fancy

Big Day Jitters

Chasing Summer

Eating Honey

Annie’s Picture

Goodnight, Sleep Tight

Like a Mother

Mackintosh Man’s Near Miss

Message of Goodwill

Misreading the Signs

Narcissus

Never Far From the Tree

Opening the Locks

Resolution

Shoes in the Wardrobe

Sixpence for a Tin Bell

The Bag Lady

To Those That Have

We Will Be The Other Animals

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Open Short Story Competition 2016 - Longlist

11/17/2016

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Please find below our longlist for this competition. We will be sending 20 of these entries to our judge Patsy. If you are not on this list, please do not be disappointed. We received many brilliantly interesting stories and it was difficult to pare the final list down to this and we still have yet to cut it down to 20.

Names of writers will be included after the announcement of results by the end of November. Please don't announce the name of your entry if it's on this list on social media until final results have been announced.

To entrants of this competition not on this list please await an email from Debbie in the next few weeks with details of our forthcoming 2017 competition schedule.

A Flight of Fancy
Annie's Picture
Big Day Jitters
Broken
Chasing Summer
Eating Honey
Flight Recorder
Free Range
Goodnight, Sleep Tight
Like a Mother
Mackintosh Man’s Near Miss
Message of Goodwill
Misreading the Signs
Narcissus
Never Far From the Tree
Opening the Locks
Phalium Glaucum
Resolution
She's My Daughter Too
Shoes in the Wardrobe
Sixpence for a Tin Bell
The Bag Lady
The Blarney Stone
The Last Ferrywoman
The Maiden's Garland
The Tipping Point
The Wild Tortoise Chase
To Those That Have
Unbelievable
We Will Be The Other Animals

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Result for 'Mum' competition 2016

2/22/2016

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Thank you to all who submitted an entry to this free entry competition.

Second prize to this competition is a free entry to our Open Short Story Competition 2016 which closes in September. A draw will be held soon and the name of every entrant to this competition who has requested to be in the draw, will be put into a hat and one drawn at random to win the second prize.

We found it difficult to choose only one winner out of all the excellent entries we received. After much consideration, here is our shortlist (listed in order of receipt of entry):

I Am Beautiful - Olivia Lunn, Dublin
Female Executive - Mary Hodges, Lancashire
Tension - Patsy Collins, Hampshire
Washing Day with Mum - Lisa Williams, Leicestershire
Two Mothers - Bryan Thomas, Essex
Accident on the Forest Road - Tony Oswick, Essex
To My Mother - Sue Gerrard, Merseyside
Mum's Allotment - Julie Burke, Nottinghamshire
Strange Things in Handbags - Lorna Flanagan, County Armagh
My Mother's War - Janet Devereux, Derbyshire

WINNER - Julie Burke, Nottinghamshire with Mum's Allotment
Comments from our readers include:

Paints a vivid picture through a daughter's observation of her mother and her own daughter.

The two-fold effect of this piece of writing makes it stand out from all other entries. It's both heart-warming yet chilling.

This brought tears to my eyes.

Winning Entry by Julie Burke

Mum’s Allotment

Ancient tendrils fiercely twist and shamble;

laden with jewel-bright bounty - snaking round

this once flawlessly cultivated ground.

All too soon your gardens fled to bramble.

Overwhelmed by nature as I ramble,

conjuring up the effervescent sound

of my own daughter’s delight as she found

luscious treasure in her playful scramble.

I could not recognize your loss of pace

as you and she were walking hand in hand;

one bent so low, the other reaching tall.

This creeping harvest, savage in demand,

leaves us bruised with slowly mouldering grace

to grasp precious memories where they fall.

(96 words)

We are currently inviting entries to the following competitions:

New Writer Competition 2016
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2016-ewg-new-writer-competition.html

Open Short Story Competition 2016 with Patsy Collins
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2016-open-short-story-competition-with-patsy-collins.html

Please follow the links for full Rules of Entry, or contact Debbie at erewashwriterscomps(at)hotmail.co.uk
(remember to exchange (at) for @ when emailing)

Thanks again to all entrants. Keep an eye on this website for more competitions in future months.

Regards,
Debbie

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